Gadgets

Kogan’s Home Appliances Now Available

Gizmodo AU

Last month brought word that online retailer Kogan was entering the home appliance space. Today they’ve announced their first products – a bagless vacuum cleaner, automatic espresso machine and a couple of convection microwaves.


September 24, 2010
Science

Microwaving The Moon

When I first saw the words microwave and moon in a sentence, I thought of dinner – not about the very first microwave map of the entire moon. That was a shame, because the latter is actually a great achievement:


August 27, 2010
Gadgets

Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions Of All Time

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits,” Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? Sometimes genius arrives not by choice – but by chance. Below are our 10 favourite serendipitous innovations.


August 25, 2010
Gadgets

Kogan To Launch Home Appliances

Gizmodo AU

If we were to place money on what the next Kogan product was going to be, we probably would have gone with a tablet. What we definitely wouldn’t have guessed was a microwave, vacuum cleaner or espresso machine, yet according to Patrick Avenell over at Current.com.au, that’s exactly the direction Kogan’s going.


June 27, 2010
Mobile

iPhone 4 Dies A Long, Fiery Microwave Death

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May 4, 2010
Computing

This Is What Happens When You Microwave An iPad

With every new Apple gadget, there’s always an imbecile who wants to destroy it on video to get a Warhol moment. This one put an iPad 3G 64GB in a microwave but, instead of a Warhol, he got a Pollock.


April 30, 2010

This Desktop Microwave Will Make You Fat

Much to my growling stomach’s dismay, the BrainWave desktop microwave is only a concept and not sitting next to my keyboard. Guess I’ll have to walk all the way to the kitchen to heat up a meal after all.


January 18, 2010
Geek Out

Reminder Of Why You Should Never Put Foil In A Microwave

Here’s why your mother always said never to put aluminium foil in the microwave. Can someone buy this Swedish guy a new kitchen, please? And a box o’ wine, too?


January 5, 2010
Software

Android To Take Over Your Washing Machine, Dryer, Oven

Do we really want to give Android the power to control our washing machines, dryers and ovens? Would someone hack them to microwave your underpants, wash your soup and dry your pizza?


Science

Can Microwave Technology Be Used To Make Food Cold?

Microwaves can transform a frozen pizza into hot, melted goodness in four minutes flat, but they can’t rescue your melted ice-cream sundae. Or can they?